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Development and validation of a quantitative UHPLC-MS/MS method for selected brominated flame retardants in food.
performance liquid chromatography — tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC- MS / MS) method was developed and validated (in-house) for the quantification of selected brominated flame retardants (BFR s), including ...
A new approach to define acceptance limits for hematology in external quality assessment schemes.
organizers. METHODS: Eight EQAS organizers from seven European countries provided their hematology survey results from 2010 to 2012 for red blood cells (RBC), hemoglobin, hematocrit, mean corpuscular volume ...
Increasing candidemia incidence from 2004 to 2015 with a shift in epidemiology in patients pre-exposed to antifungals.
/ METHODS: Candidemia incidence was expressed per 10,000 patient days (PD). Epidemiological parameters and antifungal consumption data were extracted from the hospital database and delivered by the hospital ...
Additional weighting for education affects estimates from a National Health Interview Survey.
education on estimates from the Belgian Health Interview Survey 2013. METHODS: For 25 health-related indicators that match the European Core Health Indicator shortlist, estimates were computed using two ...
Mapping occurrence of Taenia solium taeniosis/cysticercosis and areas at risk of porcine cysticercosis in Central America and the Caribbean basin.
within endemic areas is a common cause of preventable epilepsy. METHODS: We conducted a structured literature search in PubMed, supplemented and crossed-referenced with relevant academic databases, grey ...
Disability weights for infectious diseases in four European countries: comparison between countries and across respondent characteristics.
Methods: We analyzed paired comparison responses of the European DW study by participants’ characteristics with separate probit regression models. To evaluate the effect of participants’ characteristics, we ...
Defining optimal triage strategies for hrHPV screen positive women- an evaluation of HPV 16/18 genotyping, cytology and p16/Ki-67 cyto-immunochemistry.
were assessed. METHODS: This study incorporated CIN2 + cases and controls, all of whom tested hrHPV+ and whose results of liquid-based cytology (LBC), HPV16 /18 genotyping and p16/Ki67 cyto-immunochemistry were ...
Multinomial additive hazard model to assess the disability burden using cross-sectional data.
existing methods based on cross-sectional data, the attribution method, which was originally developed for binary disability outcomes, is an attractive option, as it enables the partition of disability into ...
Migrant's access to preventive health services in five EU countries.
populations in five European Union (EU) countries. METHODS: Information from Health Interview Surveys of Belgium, Italy, Malta, Portugal and Spain were used to analyse access to mammography, Pap smear tests, ...
What can the CF registry tell us about rare CFTR-mutations? A Belgian study.
in CF-disease liability is hardly documented. METHODS: Belgian CF-Registry 2013 data were analyzed to identify CF with at least 1 RM (CF + RM). Clinical data and sweat chloride of CF + RM were compared ...